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  South Africa - The Contradictions of Apartheid
Indeed, hundreds of young Africans slipped across South Africa's northern borders in the aftermath of Soweto and volunteered to fight as guerrilla soldiers for the ANC and the PAC.
Until 1974 South Africa had been part of a largely white-ruled subcontinent, with the Portuguese still governing their empire in Angola and Mozambique, and Ian Smith and his white-settler regime controlling Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe).
The South African government thereafter pursued a policy of occasional armed intervention in Zimbabwe and other frontline states and sent in strike teams periodically to destroy what it considered to be bases for guerrillas planning to infiltrate South Africa.
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 Agrement South Africa - News: October 1999 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Agrément South Africa was located at the National Building Research Institute because the latter had much of the necessary research and technical expertise.
Agrément South Africa is delighted to be able to join with certificate holders and key stakeholders, particularly the Department of Public Works, in celebrating its 30th anniversary.
The Agrément South Africa emblem is registered with the Registrar of Trade Marks and notice of the proposed prohibition of the unauthorized use of the emblem is published in the Government Gazette.
www.odsf.co.za /agrement/news/newsletter/oct1999.html   (1707 words)

  
 The first decade of the SA Journal of Economic History
As was the case in neighbouring South Africa, it was mining that finally ushered in the railway age to this landlocked country.
South Africa would have been less prosperous than it is were it not for the contribution of multinational enterprise.
South Africa's balance of payments 1946-1985, pp 37-54: Prof Philip Mohr, Mariana Botha and Jon Inggs (University of South Africa) identify some of the major non-cyclical or structural changes in the balance of payments in the post-war period up to the foreign-debt standstill of August 1985.
home.intekom.com /joni/1ST-DEC.HTM   (13777 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for East Caprivians in Namibia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
South West Africa was allocated to South Africa by the Allied and Associated Powers.
The South African government's Odendall Commission recommended the establishment of "homelands" in South West Africa and proposed a five-year economic and social plan for the territory.
South African troops used the Caprivi Strip in northeast Namibia as a base from which to launch raids against SWAPO forces in the region.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=56504   (3492 words)

  
 BARKER FAMILY IN SOUTH AFRICA - pafg05.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
LEIGH-ANN CLAIRE ELLIOTT was born on 11 Jun 1973 in SOUTH AFRICA.
CARYN ANGIE CORDIGLIA was born on 26 Mar 1975 in SOUTH AFRICA.
CECELIA CORDIGLIA was born on 18 Mar 1978 in SOUTH AFRICA.
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 CNS - South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program: An Annotated Chronology, 1969-1994
South Africa emerges "as the prime suspect," but the South African government denies that it has conducted a nuclear test.
South Africa's strategy was that "if the situation in southern Africa were to deteriorate seriously," the government would confidentially indicate its deterrent capability to one or more of the major powers – such as the United States – in order to persuade them to intervene.
South Africa is the first and to date only country to build nuclear weapons and then entirely dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
cns.miis.edu /research/safrica/chron.htm   (3468 words)

  
 Mini in South Africa
South Africa produced the Mini in an interesting variety of body combinations not seen elsewhere...
The Wolseley 1000 was South Africa's first mix-and-match Mini, mating the glitzy Wolseley front end – complete with the obligatory illuminated grille badge – to the standard Mini bodyshell.
However, in the latter half of 1969, Leyland South Africa (or Leykor) implemented a product rationisation programme that mirrored what was happening within the recently-formed BLMC back in the UK.
www.austin-rover.co.uk /ado15saf.htm   (426 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | South Africa | Modern stars impress Barlow
Eddie Barlow is one of the men credited with turning South Africa into arguably the best team in the world 35 years ago.
Barlow first saw Smith in action during South Africa's 2003 tour to England after he was handed the captaincy following the decision to sack Shaun Pollock.
"South Africa treats their captains very strangely and Graeme pitched up in England and was thrust immediately into the coalface.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/south_africa/4260471.stm   (684 words)

  
 Society Under Siege Vol III
She identifies the end of the Cold War as a key determinant for Africa, following the inevitable dumping of weapons on the continent – although this was a characteristic feature of conflict in Africa prior to that.
In Chapter 8, Gun Free South Africa outlines its role in the control of firearm proliferation and the reversal of the culture of violence.
As South Africa moves toward adopting the new firearm legislation, the debate will shift to what constitutes the best practices for implementation and enforcement of the legislation, as well as to a critical evaluation of the implication of this policy for civil society and the control of firearms in South Africa.
www.iss.org.za /pubs/Books/SocietyIIIBlurb.html   (1413 words)

  
 South Africa, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Torture is part of the system: state violence in South Africa and Namibia.
One allegation against Mossad is that it killed a South African businessman who had been selling "nasty chemicals" to Arab countries.
FRIEDLAND, Elaine A. "South Africa and Instability in Southern Africa." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 463 (1982), pp.
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 Isobel Dixon
Isobel Dixon was born in Umtata, South Africa, and grew up in the Karoo.
Dixon's poetry has been widely published in her native South Africa in the journals Carapace, Scrutiny 2, New Coin, New Contrast and Fidelities, and in various anthologies, among them A Literary Guide To The Eastern Cape (Double Storey, 2003), City In Words (David Philip 2001).
In South Africa she won the Sanlam Literary Award 2000 for her then unpublished collection of poetry Weather Eye, subsequently published by Carapace Poets (2001).
southafrica.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/22024   (173 words)

  
 LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE AGAINST APARTHEID TRANSMITTING A MEMORANDUM CONCERNING COLLABORATION OF ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
South Africa is now within the NATO defence code area and its military equipment and spare parts are codified and recorded in the same way as for NATO members;
The solidarity of the major Western Powers with South Africa was confirmed by the use of the triple veto last year by Britain, France and the United States of America to protect the Pretoria regime from being expelled as a member of the United Nations.
South Africa continues to defy the world community in the sure knowledge that it has very powerful external allies.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/aam/abdul-5c.html   (1152 words)

  
 Karting in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The 48-year-old from Pretoria started kart racing as a teenager in 1969, later representing South Africa in 100 cc Supers in three world championships, in the 1980s winning multiple 125 cc gearbox championships as well as competing in several 125cc world championships, using Rotax engines.
Apart from supplying tyres to all 68 competitors from 33 countries, Bridgestone South Africa, under the guidance of promotions manager Tony Newman, lent major financial support to the event, as well as becoming the naming sponsor of the brand new Zwartkops kart track.
The fact that the fastest drivers using the new engines were still at the top of their groups using the South African-sourced engines speaks volumes for the engine equality inherent in the Rotax MAX formula.
www.kart.co.za /news_snippets/summary_rmgf.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Welcome to South African poetry
All the poets presented so far are well known within South African.
Mzi Mahola for instance who is in his late fifties has just returned from his first European trip, a guest of South African High Commission to represent us at a festival in Glasgow along with Andre Brink, Mongane Wally Serote and Keorapetse Kgositsile.
South Africa is seething with talent and there are dozens more poets that I would have liked to promote to give a wider view of our diverse admixture of cultures and styles.
southafrica.poetryinternational.org   (494 words)

  
 Catholic priest killed in hijacking in S. Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Many people have left South Africa and I certainly understand their position, but I equally understand the position of those others who feel that "by God, this is my home and I won't be forced off it!".
The country that once was "South Africa" is gone forever, and all that is left is a third-world sewer.
S Africa's a good place to go for all that and there are places you can go and you really feel like you're off in the bush, lions and other critters that you normally only see on TV.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/586865/posts   (3612 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1969: South Africa
MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1969: South Africa
Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
South Africa's economy continued to flourish and to become more dependent on nonwhite labor.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741580605/1969_South_Africa.html   (133 words)

  
 Article vgallery.co.za Neglected Artists
South Africa’s first Black artists never worked in trouble free areas and surroundings and their work was neglected in historical context.
In 1968 Lucas Sitole represented South Africa at this event with his sculptures and in 1973 Leonard Matsoso was awarded a special prize for drawing.
This movement can be seen as one of the most original movements of the South African Art History as it developed from out of the artists themselves without external influence.
www.vgallery.co.za /2000article23/vzine.htm   (1137 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00026552   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The powerful memoir of a young fl woman coming of age in South Africa amid the violence of apartheid, beautifully written by her brother, the bestselling author of Kaffir Boy.
His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid.
It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new and democratic South Africa.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon033/00026552.html   (334 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 243 - 17 December, 1969 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Aer Lingus South Africa ...
Cluskey asked the Minister for Transport and Power if he has made any protest to the South African Government on its refusal of permission to land, within its jurisdiction, aircraft of Aer Lingus; why this permission was refused; and whether refusal will be continued.
We have not regarded it as essential to have a bilateral agreement with South Africa, for very obvious reasons.
If one has a bilateral agreement one can write into it methods of negotiating air charters; if there is no such agreement any air line can cancel charter flights, if they think their services are suffering.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0243/D.0243.196912170038.html   (499 words)

  
 Cricket - South Africa - Hansie Cronje
Hansie Cronje, was a tenacious cricketer who captained the South African cricket team at the tender age of 24 years.
Leading South Africa to great success on the world stage, he was a very handy batsman and more than competent with the ball.
Hansie quickly developed as a cricketer of international quality and was selected to represent South Africa against the West Indies in 1991, when he was promoted to the national squad after having impressed the UCBSA selectors with his performances at the provincial level.
www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/art5/art27/hansie/hansie.htm   (439 words)

  
 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Ch. 17)
I, A.B., do hereby swear/solemnly affirm to be faithful to the Republic of South Africa and solemnly promise to perform my functions as a member of the National Assembly/Senate/provincial legislature to the best of my ability.
The Constitution of South Africa shall provide for the establishment of one sovereign state, a common South African citizenship and a democratic system of government committed to achieving equality between men and women and people of all races.
Where there is necessity for South Africa to speak with one voice, or to act as a single entity- in particular in relation to other states- powers should be allocated to the national government.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Govern_Political/SouthAf_Const_17.html   (2701 words)

  
 1970 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: 1969 in South Africa, other events of 1970, 1971 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 241 - 30 October, 1969 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Sanctions Against South ...
There is no precise information as to member States of the United Nations which have unilaterally broken trading links with South Africa.
Economic sanctions to be effective would need to be observed by the major trading countries and they have not been prepared to adopt such sanctions.
While that remains the position I feel we would not be justified in depriving our [2279] exporters and workers of the fruits of any opportunties in that market.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0241/D.0241.196910300027.html   (122 words)

  
 Francis Leslie Ryall, b: 1896 - South Africa,
Marr: AFT 1925 - Durban, Natal, South Africa
Died: 21 DEC 1969 - Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Died: 12 DEC 1963 - Durban, Natal, South Africa
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 ..:: Jubilee South Africa: On the Apartheid Debt :: Fair Trade and Socially Conscious Gifts Online ::..
So the violence that took place sjould be placed firmly at their door.
Who is being targeted by civil society to pay South Africa compensation for their actions over the past decades?
In 1969, Switzerland imported 75% of apartheid gold.
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 Find old South African school friends - SAReunited, South Africa
I was desperate to contact my best friend Bridget in the UK and any other school pals, after my family left the UK in 1969, for South Africa, on my return her this year (2002) through sa reunited we found each other after 32 years, thank you and how amazing.
No matter where we are in the world, we will always remain South Africans at heart.
As we South Africans quietly proceed with the silent invasion of the world, it is really important to stay in contact.
www.sareunited.com /success_stories6.php   (1870 words)

  
 TIME Asia Magazine Media Planner | Advertising - EMEA Rates - South Africa Edition
TIME is the leading international newsmagazine in the region and was the first to launch in South Africa in 1969.
TIME South Africa editorial is tailored to include content for the African market including periodic region-specific cover stories and reports.
TIME South Africa provides an influential and authoritative editorial environment for leading South African brands.
time.com /time/asia/mediakit/advertising/article/0,17540,487438,00.html   (136 words)

  
 Years in South Africa
February 1, 2005 -- A decade after South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994, exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. marked the anniversary by taking stock of...
August 1, 2004 -- IF YOU BELIEVE what you read and hear about South Africa, you'll think the country is in horrible shape, with 42 percent unemployment, runaway crime,...
November 1, 2004 -- Gender power inequities are believed to play a key role in the HIV epidemic through their effects on women's power in sexual relationships.
www.articlesgalore.com /documents/Category:Years_in_South_Africa   (547 words)

  
 A1 Memorabilia South Africa Aways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
1969 South Western Counties vs. South Africa in the British Tour Ref: ANTDEC040016-1
1969 Scotland vs. South Africa in the British Tour Ref: RUSCO00017-1
1969 London Counties vs. South Africa on the UK Tour Ref: 04Feb00111-1
www.a1memorabilia.co.uk /acatalog/South_Africa_Aways.html   (4580 words)

  
 Alphabetical Index: D TO J: Scott's End   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Donaldson, Elizabeth Johnston South Africa 1882.03.06 1097: Donaldson, Elizabeth Margaret South Africa 1948.10.15 716: donaldson, ethel 1880.01.25 1143:
Donaldson, Francis Malcolm South Africa 1880 1146: Donaldson, Francis Malcolm "Mannie" South Africa 1908 932: Donaldson, Frank Moorhead South Africa 1917.04.16 422: Donaldson, Gavin Patrick South Africa 1928.04.06 432: Donaldson, Genelle Ann South Africa 1967.05.07 419: Donaldson, Henriette S.A. Donaldson, Hilary Justin King South Africa 1913.05.06 369:
Donaldson, Walter Hilary South Africa 1883.03.29 1117: Donaldson, Walter Hilary William South Africa 1918.06.23 930: Donaldson, Walter Malcolm South Africa 1914.07.16 420: Donaldson, Walter Malcolm Wilson South Africa 1855.09.
members.freemail.absa.co.za /mike.sw/ALPHDTOJ.HTM   (1460 words)

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